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Simple Love : A Book of Poetry

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I found this book to be very refreshing and uplifting as well as erotic. He uses eroticism just enough to get you to the edge without KNOCKING you over. My favorite by far was Check One, because of its simplicity. Love it!

There is no other way to decribe Mr. Williams except for Da Bomb. He definitely has it goin' on with his book Simple Love. The fact that it's so simple is what makes it so extraordinary. He is so expressive that by the end of the poem you feel every emotion that he was feeling as he was writing it. Keep it up Mr. Williams. I am definitely feelin' you (Especially on that --If I Could Hear Some Saxaphone--) I am awaiting the next release of your great works.

Ondrea Nicole Lewis

Simple Love is a misnomer. According to the brutally honest poetry of David Brian Williams, there is nothing simple about love. Williams has treated us to an unusally candid perspective of the often masked pain felt by men in love. His touches of eroticism reveal his desire to please, and his plea heard in "Check One" begs for an easier approach to dating and mating. There is nothing in "Simple Love" that any of us can not relate to. This man wants to love and be loved. Don't we all?

I found this book of poetry an enjoyable escape from the day to day pressures associated with life. At the same time it was a touch of reality in terms of the things that should be most important to all of us "simple love".

Now, I can't think of a better way to communicate with my own feeling for the people that mean so much to me.

Simple Love by David Brian Williams ISBN: 0-9674294-0-4

"There is more to being black than meets the eye." This is a line from a David Brian Williams Poem. His work symbolizes this notion. His new book, Simple Love also informs us that there is more to being in love than meets the eye. In a time of so much animosity reared against love poetry because of the production of so much poorly constructed love poetry, Williams' book attempts to set the record straight. His poems are not just love poems in a vacuum. His poems are love poems that exist within the context of daily living. Poems such as "Simple Love," "I Believe in You and Me," and "Check One" resonate with the daily struggles of black folk just trying to get by, hoping on hope that this tonight will help me make it to tomorrow. Yet it is not just about the "tonight" love. It is about how love has been the sustaining force in the lives of African Americans. Williams' work shows that love, romantic love, is the nucleus of the Black Movement and the shield against white oppression. Buy this book, not because it is love poetry, but because it is well crafted love poetry.